1. Faulkner’s Shadow: Pylon, 1935
A Hanger-on with High Flyers ∙ Homage to Howard Hawks ∙ Back to Bailey’s Woods ∙ Something Is Going to Bust ∙ Defying Death
2. Transcendental Homelessness: Absalom, Absalom!, December 1935–October 1936
Romance during a Mad Yankee Operation ∙ Unhappy at Home ∙ Hollywood on the Mississippi ∙ Counterpull ∙ Faulkner v. Faulkner ∙ Into the Dark House of History and Race ∙ The Power of Love
3. The Dividing Line: October 1936–February 1938
Flannel Unmentionables ∙ Slavery and War the Hollywood Way ∙ Breakup ∙ A Voodoo Version of Absalom, Absalom! ∙ Returns, Revisions, and Reunions
4. Grief: February 1938–January 1939
Family Complications ∙ The Bad Boy of American Fiction ∙ Hollywood on the Mississippi
5. Up from Feudalism: The Hamlet, 1938–1940
Exile and Exhaustion ∙ The Rise of the Redneck ∙ “Flem” ∙ “Eula” ∙ “The Long Summer” ∙ “The Peasants”
6. Was: Go Down, Moses, 1940–1942
Way Down in Egypt Land ∙ “Our Most Distinguished Unread Talent”
Visitations, Correspondence, and Exhibitions ∙ The Homefront ∙ Escape from Debtor’s Prison
8. Soldiering On: July 1942–January 1943
“The Prison House of Warner Brothers” ∙ Hollywood Goes to War ∙ Furlough
9. Yoknapatawpha Comes to Hollywood: January–August 1943
The Wax Works ∙ At Home and War
10. Fables of Fascism: To Have and Have Not, August 1943–May 1944
Reigning at Rowan Oak ∙ What Price Hollywood?
11. Hollywoodism: May–December 1944
Fitful Family Man ∙ The Faulkner Mystique
12. Hollywood and Horror, Home and Horses: December 1944–September 1945
Businesswomen, Brothels, and Vampire Lesbians ∙ Home ∙ The Salt Mines ∙ “The Plastic Asshole of the World”
13. “A Golden Book”: The Portable Faulkner, September 1945–April 1946
Native Haunts ∙ Success ∙ The “Compson Appendix”
14. Impasse: June 1946–December 1947
Interruptions ∙ Work in Progress
15. New Audiences: Intruder in the Dust, January 1948–October 1949
Off the Cuff ∙ “An Event in American Literature” ∙ Suppressed Faulkner ∙ Hollywood Comes to Oxford ∙ Pulping Faulkner
16. Coded Autobiography: Knight’s Gambit, November 1948–November 1949
Faulkner the Foreigner ∙ “Tales of Crime, Guilt, and Love”
17. Acclaim and Fame and Love: 1950–1955
“The First Great American Writer” ∙ The Nobel ∙ Else
18. What Mad Pursuit: August 1949–March 1954
Joan ∙ Estelle ∙ Jill and Joan ∙ Joan ∙ The End of the Affair
19. Two Lives/Two Faulkners: 1949–1951
Black against a White Background ∙ Collaborating with the Enemy ∙ Staging History
20. In and Out of Phase: August 1951–January 1953
Hanging Fire ∙ Invitations, Visitations, and Honors ∙ “Another Collapse”
21. Steal Away: January–December 1953
Into the Night ∙ Recovery ∙ Mississippi on the Nile via the Alps
22. Civilization and Its Discontents: December 1953–January 1955
Affairs ∙ You Can’t Go Home Again? ∙ War and Peace ∙ Crossovers
23. Ambassador Faulkner: June 1954–January 1955
“Hemispheric Solidarity” ∙ “The Perfect Virgin” ∙ Home Alone ∙ “The Dream of Perfection”
24. Past and Present: February–August 1955
The Old Hunter and the Artist ∙ Fools Rush In ∙ An Education ∙ “The Empty Mouthsound of Freedom”
25. East and West: August–October 1955
A Star Turn East ∙ A Star Turn West
26. North and South: September 1955–Spring 1957
Murder ∙ A New Confederation ∙ “Go Slow Now” ∙ Gandhi’s Way ∙ “The Far Side of the Moon”
27. Going On: January 1956–May 1957
The Actual and Apocryphal ∙ Mr. Jefferson’s University ∙ A Confession ∙ A Faustian Time of Trial
28. Writer-in-Residence: October 1956–January 1959
The Professor ∙ From Jefferson to the World and Back ∙ Two Towns ∙ Two Faulkners and Two Marriages ∙ “THE Writer-in-Residence” ∙ “Moby Mule” ∙ The Oxford-Charlottesville-Princeton Axis ∙ The Princeton Affair ∙ At the Algonquin ∙ At the Hunt
29. Full Circle: January–November 1959
Faulkner on Stage ∙ Coming Home ∙ Race and Politics and Sex ∙ “An ‘Interview’ with ‘Pappy’ Faulkner”
Between Homes ∙ Grandfather Faulkner ∙ Fool about a Horse ∙ President Faulkner ∙ A New Home
31. End of Days: June–July 1962
Before the Fall ∙ The Fall ∙ A Fabled End
Gallery follows page 340.